Author Topic: Empty folder keeps popping up after "Send to" action  (Read 1595 times)

JMuller

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MusicBee 3.3.7310, library is on a NAS, accessed through NFS.

Here's what I did:
1. I had an album with the following folder structure:
Album/CD1/
Album/CD2/
2. I used "Send to" > "Move files to organised folder" to move all the tracks into "Album/" along with any remaining non-media files.
3. I notice that the CD1 folder disappeared, however the CD2 folder is still present (and empty). If I remove it, it reappears as soon as MusicBee is focused.
I assume something, somewhere is still pointing to the folder and that's why it keeps reappearing. This happens with all albums I restructured.

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If it is truly empty, you can remove it via MB's computer node, located in the left sidebar.
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JMuller

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phred

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Just tried it, still reappears instantaneously.
What's the path to that folder? Is it a Windows protected folder? I.e. C:\Users\...
Might it be marked Read Only?
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JMuller

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It happens for many other folders that are removed by "send to". They're not protected, all of them are on a remote NAS accessed through NFS. It's clearly not a problem with Windows, if I close MusicBee and remove the folder it works just fine. The folder only reappears when MusicBee is running.


JMuller

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This topic can be closed, turns out the problem lies with QNAP. Their thumbnail generation means a hidden folder remains even after the rest of the files are removed, and this hidden folder can't be removed through SMB for some reason. I've opened an ticket with them.

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So it wasn't an empty folder. It's just that Windows couldn't see the hidden files. Good luck with QNAP.
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